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I identified it as an excerpt from a fake eclipse story. Nobody actually said that. But it was believable nowadays, sadly...

(You can also count on coal to release enough carbon-14 over the course of one month to exceed the radiation released by the Three Mile Island incident. Most people don't know that lovely bit of trivia about so-called "clean" coal.)

Excuse me!? You can count on coal to fill the air with acrid smoke, to leave behind huge piles of rocks and dirt from mining the coal, miners suffer from diseases caused by coal dust even as they risk their lives to get it out of the ground. It is a non-renewable and non-sustainable fuel that stokes global warming. Coal mining lays waste to landscapes, leaving behind contaminated, undrinkable water.

Astronomers have been observing snow on Mars for over a hundred years. Whether it was water or carbon dioxide was impossible to determine nor did anyone seriously consider that some of it might be water.

As for the troll, Sarbeck - Volcanism has already been observed on other worlds in this solar system, and multiple photographs have been taken of it. I know I'm feeding the troll, but c'mon - you seriously don't believe in volcanism? Or orbital mechanics that have been observed and confirmed over and over for literally hundreds of years?

"It happens on Earth, or we can hypothesize it. Identical processes therefore happen on planets and the bodies that orbit them."

Spud, the claim doesn't surprise folks who follow the claims Bangers make without evidence, such as
1) volcanism on bodies that orbit the planets, and
2) gravity's pulling space objects into radially-directed paths as they approach Earth.

HOPKINSVILLE, KY, August 11, 2017 /24-7PressRelease/ -- If you're planning to visit Hopkinsville, Kentucky, to see the total eclipse of the sun on August 21, 2017, be prepared. Hopkinsville (a.k.a. Eclipseville) is globally recognized to be the epicenter of the eclipse. Hundreds of thousands of spectators will converge on the town to see it. Among them "Kentuckians for Coal" will be in the vanguard protesting the eclipse.

Kentuckians for Coal is an ad-hoc coalition of miners, union officials, family members and coal users created to defend the Kentucky coal industry against encroachment from renewable energy industries and from economic development initiatives aimed at lessening America's dependence on coal. Kentuckians for Coal stands against the eclipse and those who worship it.

The protest is scheduled for high noon on Monday, August 21, 2017, in front of the offices of the Kentucky New Era newspaper at 1618 E. 9th Street, Hopkinsville, just as the eclipse begins. The "totality"--the complete blocking of the Sun by the Moon--will start at 1:24:39 and will last 2 minutes and 40 seconds.

The protesters chose the New Era office location because the newspaper and other fake-news media have been over-hyping the eclipse because of its potential to boost local economic development, while ignoring the importance of the coal industry....

Covering Trump's nonsense previously about Charlottesville, the Klan, white supremacists, etc. on the Internet I pointed out that there were two sides to Dunkirk also. A tRump supporter will keep it going until you get to Dunkirk. Then they nag you with "tRump was right" while claiming not to be a supporter.

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Attacking the media for its “very unfair” coverage of Monday’s solar eclipse, Donald J. Trump said on Saturday that the sun was equally to blame for blocking the moon.

“The fake news is covering the eclipse from the sun’s side instead of the moon’s side, but if you look at it from the moon’s side the sun is blocking the moon’s side,” he said. “There are so many sides you can’t count all the sides.”

Additionally, Trump tore into the sun itself, calling it a “showboat” for its role in the solar eclipse.

“The sun thinks the world revolves around it,” Trump said. “Sad.”

Trump said the sun was a “big problem” that his predecessor, Barack Obama, did nothing to solve, but that that situation was about to change.

“It will be handled—we handle everything,” Trump said, adding that a preëmptive military strike on the sun was “very much on the table.”